Former Utah Utes LB Trevor Reilly once held a world record for onion-eating

Forget all the guys who set records at the NFL Scouting Combine, former Utah Utes linebacker Trevor Reilly once held a world record for eating an onion in 1 minute, 35 seconds.

Reilly’s feat is probably old news to die-hard Utah fans, but he shared his story in an entry for USA Today‘s “NFL Draft Diary” series today and it’s worth passing along:

"We were at a church event and breaking world records when I was 16. They had everyone there for world’s largest pillow fight, which was the main event, and there were other records like shoving grapes in your mouth and shoving kids in a Volkswagen. Everyone said, ‘Hey, go up there and try to eat this onion.’ You had to eat a 7½-ounce white onion the fastest you can. I did it in 1 minute, 35 seconds. The old record was 2:40. I owned the world record for about a year until some guy from England beat me. You smell like onion for a couple days. I really don’t eat onions ever since then. I’ve had enough to last a lifetime. It’s funny, of all the things I’ve done in football, I’m known as the onion-eating guy still."

(If you want further proof, here’s the initial story from 2004.)

I’m pretty sure Reilly just became Bill Raftery’s favorite player.

[Source: USA Today Sports]